Lavinder Singh did not enter public life as a criminal patriarch. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he served as a constable within the Haryana Police force. Policing in the northern agrarian belt during that era was demanding, requiring long deployments away from home. Facing increasing family obligations and the logistics of supervising hundreds of bighas of land across the Punjab-Rajasthan border, Lavinder surrendered his badge after approximately five years of service.
He returned full-time to Duttaranwali. The village, situated close to Abohar, sits on the cusp where Punjab’s canal-irrigated plains meet the sandy expanses of Rajasthan. Lavinder traded department patrols for tube-wells, tractors, and seasonal crop cycles. Those who served alongside him during his brief tenure remember an austere, physically imposing constable who valued institutional protocol, an irony that continues to haunt security personnel who monitor his household today.
